ALBANIA: The Man Who Was King

In the rough, gaudy amusement quarter of
Hamburg known as Sankt Pauli, where anything goes, one of the quieter
attractionsbut a good onewas white-thatched, bushy-mustached Otto
Witte, a lifelong circus performer who made his first public appearance
as a lion tamer at the age of eight. All Otto had to offer was stories,
but it was a blase man indeed who could walk away from Otto's tales of
how his skill at magic won him the honorary chieftainship of an African
Pygmy tribe, or of the time that he tried to elope with the Emperor of
Ethiopia's daughter.